Mini Hellfire Dreadnought
Alex Kahler minimized the Hellfire Dreadnought from Warhammer 40k into a micro vignette at the same time keeping all the defining details, making the model instantly recognizable to fans of the game.
Archive for April, 2008
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The Contortion
This is my first surrealist piece of the year and it marks the contortion of my mind for the past year and going. The sculpture itself is extremely fragile, but sturdy enough to survive a 5.2 earthquake. The bulk of the work is composed of four interweaving strands built from corner plates and supported at several critical points.
Magic Punk battleship – Theolith
Brent Wolke (aka thwaak) is known for his Magic Punk creations that combine fantasy with the magical. The Theolith is a heavily armed flagship that looks to be constructed on a floating rock (which is fully capable of motion in Brent’s world). See more details and descriptions in his flickr photostream.
Kyle Katarn’s Moldy Crow by RogueBantha
One of the things that got me into Star Wars back in the 90′s was the PC game Dark Forces (released in 1995).
Tim “RogueBantha” Goddard has created a vignette to showcase his microscale Moldy Crow (an older creation):
I wasted far too many hours late at night blowing stormtroopers away with the concussion rifle and avoiding thermal detonators thrown by three-eyed Grans (“Tink tink tink…BOOM!”). Ah, good times…
Tim’s latest is actually a lovely little Theta-class shuttle, shown here with Palpatine and a pair of clones:
EV-39 Taymyrskiy by Adrian Florea
Adrian Florea takes the flyers of World War II as inspiration for his latest fighter:
The angled wings, the rear stabilizers, the chrome helmets… Fantastic. Here it is from another angle:
There’s still time to enter the Reasonably Clever Iron Man contest
The Pumping Iron: Extreme Armor Building Challenge is wrapping up over on Reasonably Clever.
Chris Doyle has a great example entry, “Late 1980′s Romantic Comedy Armor”. Ha!
With tons of Exo-Force and BrickArms prizes, less than 20 entries so far, and the contest ending on May 2, this may just be your chance to score some sweet loot. ;-)
Michael Jasper has lots of babies
Any update to Michael Jasper‘s Brickshelf gallery is a must-see. His latest batch of tiny, ingenious creations include a diversity of wonderful families with prams and strollers.
Check out the toddler in this picture:
Nathan Proudlove strikes it lucky
Nathan Proudlove has mainly been building amazing hotrods and other vehicles lately, but that doesn’t mean he’s not also a talented space builder.
Nathan’s “Lucky Strike” cave racer is blocky and colorful on the front and round, spiky, and black in back. The contrast of color and shape is wonderful.
(Via the ever-vigilant Young Spacers.)
Thumping of metal
Japanese mecha master Kwi Chang (Brickshelf) recently won Izzo’s Sci-Fi Industrial Mecha Competition (English info here on TBB) with another excellent heavy industrial mech, illustrated here in a cool background.
The actual model called Type-D9 is quite awesome by itself. You can see another amazing graphic that we’ve blogged earlier here.
Via Klocki
COOL machine
Shannon Ocean‘s latest work criticizes conformity with the COOL machine. Unique individuals enter and generic drones come out. Is this how personality is suppressed?
Minifig Spawn
My Spawn minifig was inspired by a conversation I had a while back with Drew Ellis. He suggested Bane from 7787 The Bat-Tank would make an excellent Spawn. I’m inclined to agree:
(All official pieces; no custom parts.)
Dave Lartigue assaults the Necromancer’s Tower
When the dead rise from their graves to destroy the living, dark magic must be afoot (or it’s the solanum virus, but that’s a different story). Dave Lartigue illustrates one such incident in his “Assault on the Necromancer’s Tower” diorama. Here’s the tower:
The dead rise up!
Villagers fight back!
There’s lots more to see in Dave Lartigue’s photostream on Flickr.
Interceptor Rapid Mech Deployment Craft by Kidthor
Kidthor (Brickshelf) is a fairly prolific builder I hadn’t noticed (sorry!) until he posted this brilliant mecha drop-ship:
If that’s not cool enough for ya (and it should be), the mecha has a separate “Lodestar Aerospace Booster”:
Check out more pictures in Kidthor’s Flickr photostream or Brickshelf gallery.
Joriel Jimenez’s Commonwealth Peacekeeping Forces
Joriel “Joz” Jimenez (MOCPages) has been hard at work updating his Flickr photostream lately. I keep bookmarking stuff to blog, and then he posts something even cooler.
With squad after squad of great minifigs, Joz is clearly a man after my own heart. Unlike too many “army builders,” he peppers his multitudes with unique units like this pair of “Jump Jet Instructors”:
Here are my favorites:
Oh, and yes, that is a kangaroo in the CPKF Insignia. Nice.
